Eddy Grant Accuses Gorillaz Of Copying After Gorillaz Manager Threatens People For Copying...

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So, the music press has been busy talking about the accusations from Eddy Grant that the band Gorillaz copied his old tune with one of their recent hits. You can compare the two songs here. There appear to be some similarities, but they're pretty different songs:

There are only 7 notes (12 if you count the sharps and flats). There are only a finite number of ways you can arrange them in a song. There are even less ways to arrange them that sound pleasing to the ear. The chances of two people independently chancing on a similar arrangement without ever hearing the other's work is therefore pretty good. Maybe this is just that, a coincidence...

Even if they didn't outright sample and manipulate the original synth riff, they can NOT not have known it sounded so similar. It's not like Gorillaz is some unknown band, they have the money to clear samples and/or give a writing credit to the guy : guilty.

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Even if they didn't outright sample and manipulate the original synth riff, they can NOT not have known it sounded so similar.

So, you're saying it's not possible that The Gorillaz could be unaware that one of the trillion songs that have been recorded sounds roughly similar to their song? Rather than impossible, I think it's almost certain.

It's not like Gorillaz is some unknown band, they have the money to clear samples and/or give a writing credit to the guy : guilty.

But if you're the person from Gorillaz who wrote this song and you've never even heard the Eddie Grant song, you wouldn't even think to clear the sample of give writing credits because it wasn't a sample and you wrote it.

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You can tell I'm a geek because it took me a good 5 minutes of re-reading to figure out you meant "one of" and not using some new vernacular which describes Massive Attack as awesome by referring to them as being on the end of a file.

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And you can tell that I still have a long ways to go in attaning my sought after geek card because I had to reread both our comments about six times before having any clue as to what you were talking about :)

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Electric Avenue is the worst "song" in history.

What makes this story doubly perplexing is that 95% of the people who even know who Eddie Grant is only know him for Electric Avenue and that isn't even the song Gorillaz are being accused of copying. Doh!

Also, about the worst song in history comment. This reminds me of those VH1 "top worst songs" shows. The thing is, if they really found the worst songs, they'd be by no one anyone ever heard of. What these shows should really be called is "Let's make fun of some videos that were popular at the time, but look silly in hind sight."

I tried to listen

I can hear the similarities in the two songs, from the vocals (not words) to the beat to the notes, but doesn't copyright require it to be "copied"

As someone pointed out there are only 12 notes, and a finite number of combinations that are tolerable to the ear, and take that times the number of instruments and you still have only a small number of combinations compared to the number of songs out there.

To me they both sound like any other song you would hear in a techno club, and to be honest they all sound alike to me so maybe he should be sueing everyone.

nope

not cuz the melody line has 6 notes out of 8 that are the same that the song's the same, that's complete and massive BS by Eddie... + gorillaz' has that bridge in a different tone, not to mention the intense soul signing. Oh and BTW, i love house, but this «time wrap», this is crappy house!

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"They can't NOT know this song."

Neither of my parents nor uncles/aunts or anything who went clubbing around this time have any clue what the song is and have never heard it before. I have no idea what Environ/Balihu are, and Derrick May?

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